²³ My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,^(A) and I will wipe them out. ²⁴ Do not bow down before their gods or worship^(B) them or follow their practices.^(C) You must demolish^(D) them and break their sacred stones^(E) to pieces. ²⁵ Worship the Lord your God,^(F) and his blessing^(G) will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness^(H) from among you, ²⁶ and none will miscarry or be barren^(I) in your land. I will give you a full life span.^(J)

²⁷ “I will send my terror^(K) ahead of you and throw into confusion^(L) every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.^{(M) 28} I will send the hornet^(N) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites^(O) out of your way. ²⁹ But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals^(P) too numerous for you. ³⁰ Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession^(Q) of the land.

³¹ “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea^[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,^[b] and from the desert to the Euphrates River.^(R) I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out^(S) before you. ³² Do not make a covenant^(T) with them or with their gods. ³³ Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare^(U) to you.”

¹¹ Obey what I command^(A) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^{(B) 12} Be careful not to make a treaty^(C) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare^(D) among you. ¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{[a](E) 14} Do not worship any other god,^(F) for the Lord, whose name^(G) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(H)

¹⁵ “Be careful not to make a treaty^(I) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^(J) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{(K) 16} And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(L) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(M) they will lead your sons to do the same.

⁵¹ “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,^{(A) 52} drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.^{(B) 53} Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.^{(C) 54} Distribute the land by lot,^(D) according to your clans.^(E) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(F) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(G)

⁵⁵ “‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns^(H) in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. ⁵⁶ And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.^(I)’”